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| Georgia Institute of Technology |
The Georgia Institute of Technology (simply referred to as GT, Tech, or Georgia Tech) is founded in 1865, as the Georgia School of Technology as part of rebuilding planning to improve its technology to compete with the industrial revolution in the post-Civil War Southern United States with Northern. It is a non-profit public research university in Atlanta, the state of Georgia, the United States. Georgia Tech is operated through the University System of Georgia. It has satellite campuses in Savannah, Georgia; Metz, France; Shanghai, China; Singapore; as well as Athlone, Ireland. It is best university for engineering degrees as well as other reputed degrees.
Although established in 1865, Georgia Tech introduced its educational programs 1885 to build an industrial economy. In the beginning, it offered only a degree in the field of mechanical engineering. By 1901, Georgia Tech’s curriculum had elaborated to comprise civil, chemical, and electronic engineering. The school changed its name to Georgia Institute of Technology in 1948 to reflect its evolution from a business school to a bigger and more capable technical institute and research university.
This time, Georgia Tech is managed into six colleges: College of Architecture, College of Computing, College of Engineering, College of Sciences, Ivan-Allen College of Liberal Arts, and Scheller College of Business and having about 31 departments/units, with emphasis on science and technology. Its undergraduate and graduate programs like bachelors degree programs , master degree programs and doctoral programs are operated through these institutes. Georgia Tech is best known for its degree programs in engineering, business administration, computing, liberal arts, the sciences, in addition to architecture.
Georgia Tech’s main campus is located in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia. It is bordered by 10th Street to the north and by North Avenue to the south, having it well landscaped view of the Atlanta skyline. Georgia’s campus was the site of the athletes’ village and a venue for several of athletic events for the 1996 Summer Olympics. The construction of the Olympic village, along with subsequent gentrification of the surrounding areas, enhanced the campus. The campus is organized into main four parts: East Campus, West Campus, Central Campus, and Technology Square. East Campus & West Campus are both occupied generally by student living complexes; while Central Campus is occupied primarily for teaching and research buildings.
Both organized and intramural student athletics, are an integral part of student and alumni life. The school’s intercollegiate competitive sports teams, the four-time football nation champion Yellow Jackets, and the nationally recognized fight song “’Ramblin’ Wreck from Georgia Tech”, have helped keep Georgia Tech in the national spotlight. Georgia Tech’s sports teams: seven women’s and eight men’s teams that participate & compete in the NCAA Division I athletics as well as the Football Bowl Subdivision. Georgia Tech is one of the members of the Coastal Division in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
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